Daming: If I find a great-grandson, I will teach an emperor through the ages

Chapter 144 The first experimental artillery launch!
There are also some myths and stories spread in Japan. Naturally, some sacrificial activities are indispensable, and the construction of altars is also common.

But no matter how important the sacrificial activity is, the construction of the altar is mostly done by local officials. Japan's high-ranking generals will only take a look at it, and it is impossible to stay there and watch it all the time.

After all, their respective identities are there.

In the same way, when the Ming Dynasty built a spiritual platform to pray for blessings and made elixirs for the Ming Emperor, there was no need for the Ming Dynasty to have the ever-present gaze of King Yan.

But now two years have passed, and Zhu Di seems to have taken root in Ishimiyama, motionless.

Even the New Year's Eve, which is most important to the people of the Central Plains, did not return to the Ming Dynasty to spend it.

This is so anomalous!
All the ministers in the court followed Junichiro Koizumi's thoughts and reacted one after another.

Something is wrong with these Ming people!They are most likely doing some shady and dirty things in Iwamiyama!

So here comes the question, what exactly is there in Iwamiyama?What could make the people of Ming Dynasty so grand and send so many soldiers to guard them?

Of course, Houguishan and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, who did not know the truth, had no way of knowing what exactly existed in Ishimiyama.

But there must be a lot of benefits for these Ming people to spend so much effort!Otherwise, Zhu Di would not have come all the way to Japan with a large number of troops and refused to leave.

After thinking about it, Hou Guishan suddenly became even more angry!
These people from the Ming Dynasty came to Japan's Southern Dynasty and occupied Iwami Mountain. They got who knows how much advantage they got there, but they ruined his good deeds again and again!
If he didn't let out his bad breath, how could he, the Emperor of the Southern Dynasties of Japan, have any face?If word spreads, won't it become everyone's laughing stock?
"hateful!"

The angry Hou Guishan slapped the low table in front of him with a bang.

"These Ming people are really hateful!"

"We must find out what they are doing in Iwamiyama!"

"What do you think we should do to check?"

Hou Guishan looked at the many ministers below. The people who were shouting just now fell silent for a while.

They couldn't think of any way to deal with these powerful Ming people, but they couldn't confront them head-on.

The finance minister who just spoke said:
"What's so difficult about this? Just send a few people who can speak the Ming dialect, sneak into the Ming army camp, and you'll find out immediately."

"idiot!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Junichiro Koizumi cursed.

"It would be fine if it was an ordinary military camp, but it is a military camp where King Yan of the Ming Dynasty is sitting. The defense and inspection are tight. If anyone who doesn't know the inside story enters, their flaws will be exposed soon, and they will die! Doing this will only make those people of the Ming Dynasty Be more alert!”

The finance minister was refuted and lost face. He wanted to argue but could not find an excuse, and his face turned blue and red.

Go Kameyama's eyes fell on Junichiro Koizumi.

"How to do it then?"

After Junichiro Koizumi lowered his head and thought for a moment, he said:
"Your Majesty, now Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's Northern Army has retreated to Nagano and is heavily guarded. It will not be appropriate for our Southern Army to fight the Northern Army for a while."

"And Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who has suffered a loss of troops, will not rashly send troops to attack us again. The situation on the front line is quite stable."

"In this case, Your Majesty can recall some of the troops and go to the Shijian Mountain to arrange military training and practice mountain battles. Then you can find an opportunity to find out what those Ming people are doing."

Go Kameyama nodded after hearing this, Junichiro Koizumi's words made sense.

At this time, the Southern Dynasty's army missed a good opportunity, giving Ashikaga Yoshimitsu a chance to breathe. The opponent will definitely deploy heavy troops to defend Nagano, an important place.

In many previous battles, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's Northern Dynasty army was defeated many times by the combined forces of the Southern Dynasty army and the Ming Dynasty cavalry, and the loss of troops was also considerable.

Now the two sides are evenly matched, and it will take a certain amount of time to cultivate after several consecutive battles.

Training at this time is a good excuse.

Moreover, he has put the army in Zhu Di's face, he will not be indifferent, right?More or less, it will definitely be a rat-proof weapon.

"Okay! Just do as you say, I will order the deployment of troops..."

The court meeting dispersed and many ministers left one after another.

However, Junichiro Koizumi did not leave, and came to the side hall of the palace to ask for Go Kameyama again.

After entering the house, Junichiro Koizumi stepped on his wooden clogs and walked to Kameyama with a clattering sound and knelt down on the ground.

"Koizumi-san, what's the matter with you?"

Junichiro Koizumi bowed his head respectfully and said:
"I would like to ask your Majesty to give an order to secretly recruit some highly skilled warriors."

"Recruiting warriors for what?"

"During the court meeting just now, I mentioned that we should look for opportunities to train troops around Ishimi Mountain. In fact, there is little hope of success, but as long as we use the illusion of military training to confuse the people of Ming Dynasty and let them focus on our military training, Go up, and then secretly send samurai along the coast to the west side of Ishimi Mountain to land, and conduct a secret investigation, and you will definitely be able to find out what these Ming people are doing."

Houguishan was surprised!
This method of building the plank road openly and secretly using it to build the plank road is indeed a good plan for Taoism.

"Such a good strategy, why didn't you tell it at the court meeting?" Hou Guishan asked in question.

Junichiro Koizumi shook his head,

"There are many gossips in the court. If everyone knows about this matter, if someone with a loose tongue accidentally leaks it... it falls into the ears of those Ming people. Your Majesty will want to find out what those Ming people are doing." What, it’s extremely difficult!”

Go Kameyama suddenly realized it and couldn't help but praise Junichiro Koizumi.

"Prime Minister Koizumi is really my wise minister! I have Prime Minister Koizumi, and I will be able to unify Japan one day!"

"Prime Minister Koizumi has given such thorough consideration, I can rest assured!"

"Okay! I will give you another secret decree. The task of recruiting warriors must be done by Prime Minister Koizumi yourself, so I can rest assured!"

Junichiro Koizumi bowed respectfully,
"It is my duty to serve His Majesty!"

In fact, the emperor of the Japanese royal family usually secretly maintains a group of samurai, but these samurai are very different from ordinary samurai.

Due to being brainwashed for a long time and receiving financial assistance from the royal family, these samurai can even execute orders that require death for the emperor's words!

This kind of warrior is also usually called a dead warrior.

Koizumi Junichiro originally wanted Goguishan to send dead soldiers to carry out this mission to ensure the confidentiality and safety of the mission.

But every dead soldier was trained with a huge expenditure of material and financial resources. If he just wanted to check the situation of the Ming Dynasty people, Hou Guishan would probably not agree.

Koizumi Junichiro simply changed his tune and asked Go Kameyama to secretly recruit a group of samurai.

A moment later, Junichiro Koizumi left the Yoshino Palace and began to send people around to recruit civilian samurai...

Because he had to carry out secret missions, Junichiro Koizumi did not recruit many samurai. Only a dozen or 20 people were enough.

In less than a month, Junichiro Koizumi spent a lot of money to recruit seventeen samurai from all over the Southern Dynasties.

Because they all received a lot of money, after Junichiro Koizumi told them clearly what they wanted to do, the seventeen samurai all agreed.

"Don't worry, Prime Minister, I am best at escaping in the mountains and forests. Those Ming people will never find me!" "His Majesty the Emperor has ordered that we should step forward. For this latent mission, I will wait and see. It’s obligatory!”

Junichiro Koizumi did not doubt his presence and arranged a place for seventeen more samurai to live.

Now that the samurai have been found, they are waiting for Goguishan's order to call back some of the troops on the front line and train around Ishimi Mountain to attract the attention of the Ming Dynasty...

the other side.

In the country of Ming Dynasty.

More than half a month has passed, and the improved artillery site requested by Cao Wei has been completed three days ago.

The improvement work of the artillery also officially began.

On the other side of the barren slope to the west of the manufacturing bureau, in a simple yard similar to a basketball court, Cao Wei was experimenting with the first launch of the improved artillery that had been developed in three days.

The first improvement was very simple. It was to change the solid cannonball into a hollow one, fill it with explosives, and leave a fuse for the cannonball to ignite.

In the place where the gunpowder fuse is ignited in the barrel, a small gap is left, which is used to place the fuse of the cannonball.

In this way, after igniting the fuse to launch the gunpowder of the cannonball, it will burn to the root, and the fuse of the cannonball will also be ignited.

The gunpowder in the barrel explodes and the cannonball is launched. After the fuse of the cannonball burns out, the cannonball explodes when it hits the crowd!
But such an operation requires accurately finding the fuse of the artillery shell and fixing the position.

The method of loading and compacting ammunition in the front chamber did not work, so Cao Wei led a group of craftsmen to separate the stomach of the barrel, forming a buckle-loading type that could be opened and loaded.

When loading a cannon shell, first open the stomach of the cannon barrel and load it with gunpowder wrapped in oil paper, then load the cannonball from the stomach and place the fuse of the cannonball in the reserved small hole.

Then buckle the lid on the stomach of the barrel and lock it with a mechanism, and light the fuse.

Because this was the first experiment, for safety reasons, Cao Wei made the shell of the shell very thick and filled it with very little gunpowder.

What they want now is the correct firing method, and the improvement of artillery power cannot be rushed.

"Sir, please stand further away!"

Outside the yard, a group of craftsmen were loading cannonballs into the barrel according to the process.

Wang Hu led two or three craftsmen to stop in front of Cao Wei and asked him to stand farther away, lest the artillery explosion would hurt Cao Wei.

Cao Wei couldn't help but smile bitterly when he saw that he was already four or five meters away from the artillery.

"If I stand further away, I won't be able to see anything. This distance is far enough and safe enough."

However, Wang Hu stubbornly shook his head and said, "The fire is about to be lit, please stand further away!"

Seeing that there was no other way, Cao Wei could only take two small steps back.

"That's okay. This distance is far enough. I really can't see clearly any further away."

Wang Hu looked back at the distance of the artillery, and finally nodded.

"ignition!"

The craftsman next to the artillery heard the sound, brought the fire in his hand closer, and lit the fuse of the artillery.

Afterwards, several craftsmen next to the artillery quickly moved away from each other.

The direction directly facing the muzzle is a forest in the southwest, which is deserted. There is no need to worry about the artillery hurting anyone.

The fuse gradually burned to the root, successfully igniting a small section of the fuse exposed by the shell.

then,

The gunpowder inside the barrel was detonated.

"Oh!"

There was a loud noise, and the cannonballs flew rapidly from the muzzle toward the woods!
For a moment, everyone stared at the cannonball without blinking, watching it fly farther and farther, and finally turned into a small black dot and landed on the ground.

After two breaths.

"boom!"

The shell exploded, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Several birds in the distant woods started up, chirping and flying into the distance.

Become!

In the first experiment, the thunderbolt bullet was successfully fired, which shows that the road to artillery improvement is feasible.

But when Cao Wei looked at the place where the shell exploded in the distance, his head was covered with black lines.

Because of the pursuit of safety, Cao Wei did not add much gunpowder when making this cannonball.

Before firing, he had already had the touching anticipation of the explosive power of the shell.

But when he saw with his own eyes the cannonball that was about the size of a human head and the dust it raised was only two feet wide, he couldn't help but roll his eyes.

It’s so powerful!
Compared with what he knew about the power of normal cannonballs, the performance of the cannonball in front of him was like a human fart.

There was no danger at this time, and Cao Wei took the lead and led everyone to the place where the shell exploded.

The moment Cao Wei saw the cannonball, ten thousand grass-mud horses ran wildly in his heart.

The shell of the cannonball was exploded by the gunpowder inside, and the shock wave lifted up five inches of the surrounding land.

However, the shell of the cannonball... is still there.

Although it has been torn apart, it is still connected as a whole, like a big watermelon that has been chopped open.

The "tragic situation" of the shell shells reminded Cao Wei of his previous life when he was a child and used firecrackers to fry pots and pans.

After those bowls and basins are bombed too many times, they will crack and look just like the "corpses" of shell shells in front of you!
Cao Wei thought that the power of this shell would be very small, after all, there was not much gunpowder inside.

But he didn't expect it to be so small!
Even the shell casings can leave a whole body!
How to injure people and kill the enemy on the battlefield?
However, the power of the shells was small, and it could be solved by adding more gunpowder later. Another problem made Cao Wei frown even deeper.

He remembered clearly that after the cannonball was launched and landed, it took two or three breaths before it exploded.

Just these two or three short breaths can be very deadly on the battlefield!
The artillery shell cannot explode in time when it hits the ground. If the enemy has countermeasures, such as using water, stepping on it, or even spitting or peeing to extinguish the fuse of the artillery shell, then the artillery shell will be useless.

Cao Wei's first thought was to shorten the length of the fuse reserved on the artillery shell.

But this may cause that when using artillery to attack distant enemies, the fuse has burned out before the shell hits the ground, and the shell explodes in mid-air.

The fundamental meaning of the existence of artillery is to cause large-scale damage to the enemy through long-range means!
How can such a mid-air explosion cause effective damage?
Or sacrifice a little range, but that may cause delayed explosion of the shell, giving the enemy time to react.

(End of this chapter)